Chapter 82, Al-Infitar [ The Cleaving ]
- Seeking refuge with Allah from the banished Satan.I begin in the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful.
- 1. When the Sky is cleft asunder;
- 2. When the Stars are scattered;
- 3. When the Oceans are suffered to burst forth;
- 4. And when the Graves are turned upside down;-
- 5. (Then) shall each soul know what it hath sent forward and (what it hath) kept back.
- 6. O man! What has seduced thee from thy Lord Most Beneficent?-
- 7. Him Who created thee. Fashioned thee in due proportion, and gave thee a just bias;
- 8. In whatever Form He wills, does He put thee together.
- 9. Nay! But ye do reject Right and Judgment!
- 10. But verily over you (are appointed angels) to protect you,-
- 11. Kind and honourable,- Writing down (your deeds):
- 12. They know (and understand) all that ye do.
- 13. As for the Righteous, they will be in bliss;
- 14. And the Wicked - they will be in the Fire,
- 15. Which they will enter on the Day of Judgment,
- 16. And they will not be able to keep away therefrom.
- 17. And what will explain to thee what the Day of Judgment is?
- 18. Again, what will explain to thee what the Day of Judgment is?
- 19. (It will be) the Day when no soul shall have power (to do) aught for another: For the command, that Day, will be (wholly) with Allah.